shihan Richard Haaker - 07/07/00 01:26:07
My URL:http://www.kogahailungryu.homestead.com/ninja.html
My Email:kogaryu58@homestead.com
Martial Art(if any): koga ryu ninjitsu,muay thai,kendo
Comments:
I'm a 5th degree black belt in koga ryu ninjitsu. I am in the southern california area and my students and I are looking for other ninjitsu schools to work out with. I have tried frank dux and other students of dux ryu, but his arrogance is unacceptable I was trained in the Phillipines under master Takita. I am simply looking for another quality and traditional school like my own. Please e-mail me or call me at 310 910 3377 ask for richard. thank you.

Hey Daniel. I would definitely question this guy. He showed up at my husband's dojo about 4 months ago claiming the same qualifications. However, most of his stories were inconsistent and we eventually kicked him out of the dojo for trying to teach his crap to our students. Just as a side note, he claimed to have a fight record but our white and yellow belt students were kicking his ass. I would think being a black belt he would be way more skilled than that. Let me know if you want more information on our experience with him.

Hi Kamauchi -

Would love to get more information on your experience with him. If you are uncomfortable posting it here - feel free to send it to me privately.

daniel (at) hissatsudojo com

I spent the morning looking up as much as I could. Which means zero.

ok - google fu reveals the following:

No mention of "Swift Foot Academy" in Florida or anywhere else in the world.

This may not be very useful, sorry, but I know that there is a K-1 sponsored AMATEUR event they do every year that has life 5 weight classes... ie not just the 72 kg "k1 MAX" and the heavyweight k1 everyone knows. The reulsts are not likely to hit the internet, it is considered a small event and mostly for college age students, like the shootboxing national amateur event every year. Thus, it is possible he did this, and it would not show up on internet. At same time, it is a small AMATEUR event which would question other aspects of what he is claiming....

To check on any bare knuckle at Lumpinee (being Thai, I have seen MANY spellings of this stadium by the way) you could go to mixedmartialarts.com to their kickboxing section and look for "PISAND" who would likely be able to verify.....

No, they don't. They track MMA fights, not kickboxing fights. K-1 holds MMA fights, and given that Shamrock vs Sinosic is listed on their MMA records, it was an MMA fight. To nitpick further, Shamrock did not win that event, just his fight, and does not seem to have fought in the tournament itself. Cumpson appears to be claiming kickboxing bouts in K-1, which are not listed on Sherdog. Also, him not appearing on the K-1 site is probably expected, I don't think their site is that complete. That said, him not appearing on Sherdog might be odd given that he claims a 4-2 pro mma record.